Newsletter COVID-19, Season 3 Opener It's my turn to get the coronavirus and, unfortunately, I'm writing about it. Don't worry, this isn't going to be one of those Substacks.
Newsletter Life After Being The Center of The World The hüzün of Istanbul, rendered by Orhan Pamuk, has some lessons for an America that sees itself as the axis on which the earth rotates.
Newsletter At War With the Pedophile Knowers Conservatives claim to care about keeping children safe from predation. At their own institutions, children are horrifyingly unsafe, and they’re all looking for the guy who did this.
Newsletter How The Forever Wars Were (Mis)Reported For 20 Years I was honored to be part of this discussion with Azmat Khan, Murtaza Hussain and Alice Speri at the International Journalism Festival.
Newsletter Thirty Months To The Beginning of Extinction The IPCC's latest report is a grim reminder that the U.S.' response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine threatens the long-term viability of human life on earth.
Newsletter How The U.S. Moves in Europe vs. How The U.S. Moves in Asia Prepare for more U.S. troops permanently stationed in Europe. Meanwhile, the Transportation Command outlines some logistical problems for U.S. hegemony in the Pacific.
Newsletter Saving Ukraine vs. Defeating Russia A month into the invasion, these two goals look the same. Biden's regime-change line is a reminder of how divergent they are.
Newsletter Maybe Take It Seriously When Coup Advocates Talk About Throwing People in Guantanamo? I read Ginni Thomas' texts to Mark Meadows and it turns out that the longer a forever prison stays open, the worse an assumption it is that only Those People end up there
Newsletter Protect trans kids. A thoughtless sop to bigots in Texas has endangered trans children and their only advocates. It’s time to stand up for them. PLUS: Madeleine Albright, remembered
Newsletter The Second U.S. Sacrifice of Yemen A hidden casualty of Russia's Ukraine invasion is Yemen, as the Saudis and the Emiratis raise the cost for the U.S. of increasing oil production. It's an oil prince's world; people just die in it.
Newsletter His Torture Was 'On-The-Job-Practice' for CIA Interrogators' ‘Certification’ Langley's case for abusing Ammar Al-Baluchi was 'weak,' 'fuzzy and circular,' & 'extra-legal,' says a secret 2008 CIA inspector general report that FOREVER WARS is publishing for the first time.
Newsletter Report of the CIA Inspector General Regarding Allegations of Torture Made by Ammar al-Baluchi Paragraphs 35b to 145, redacted and unclassified
Newsletter Pentagon Official Rules That A Man The CIA Raped And Tortured Can Go Free Majid Khan's sentence has been reduced to time served. His lawyer doesn't expect bureaucratic subterfuge before Khan flies out of Guantanamo Bay.
Newsletter As The Invasion of Ukraine Goes On, Pressure To Escalate Goes Up The Biden administration is, correctly, against a no-fly zone. The problem will be keeping that politically tenable.
Newsletter Trust The CIA About What It Should Cover Up, Says Supreme Court The leading liberal on the Court expressed impressive credulity in blocking an attempt at justice for torture. But Abu Zubaydah's attorneys see a path forward.
Newsletter So, Just Making Sure That We Agree: It's OK To Seize Oligarchs' Stuff Now President Biden has vowed to confiscate the assets of parasitic oligarchs. FOREVER WARS has a modest proposal for the expansion of this exciting new front in the class war.
Newsletter Making Ordinary Russians Suffer for Putin's Invasion Neither Putin nor his oligarchs will suffer from U.S. and European economic siege warfare—it's part of how Putin rose to power in the first place. Plus: a Xius ex machina?
Newsletter U.S. Bombs Somalia as Russia Bombs Ukraine You do not, in fact, have to choose between American and Russian imperial aggressions. Better to bear witness to what is being done in your name.
Newsletter Pennsylvania Man Charged With Torture Outside Official CIA Channels The Justice Department really had the nerve to boast about indicting its second U.S. citizen under the 1994 federal torture statute. Also: nothing about Ukraine.
Newsletter The Digital Offertory and the Militant Right GiveSendGo isn’t just another far-right Kickstarter clone. It’s an expression of long-established Christian financial frameworks.
Newsletter The CIA Has Been Stealing Your Data For Years We don't know much more than that, but thanks to a bulk-surveillance disclosure last week, we know that.
Newsletter When An Iraqi Traffic Cop Offers To Share The Porn on His Phone I randomly came across a forgotten story I wrote on an embed in Baghdad during the 2007 surge. A real dudes-rock moment from across cultures.
Newsletter 'America Is Not A Land of Crime, Horror, Murder, Hatred, and Bloodshed' Censors on school boards and in legislatures have attacked a vast breadth of literature as “obscene.” You'll be shocked how they define obscenity! PLUS: The death of Whatshisname, leader of ISIS
Newsletter Teamwork Matthew Cole's new book Code Over Country reveals what the War on Terror awoke within SEAL Team 6
